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REMARKS OjSi INSECTS. 



are intended to avoid an internal disease in the 

 plants, (if I may use the term,) insects will at 

 all times make their appearance, which should 

 be attended to without delay : in the first place, 

 be careful to keep the pinery at all times very 

 clean, and when insects appear on the plants, 

 take a brush, a common painter's brush will do, 

 and brush as many of the insects as you con- 

 veniently can off the leaves, even down to the 

 heart of the plants, but do not injure them, and 

 also quite down to the bottom where they appear* 

 Various methods are also used to destroy the 

 insects; fumigating with tobacco smojse, although 

 an old method is by no means to be despised ; 

 indeed, if properly managed, I do not know of 

 a better, although many, from some trifling oc- 

 currence, may differ from me. This is done by 

 means of fumigating bellows, or with a smoking 

 pot, letting it burn till the house is filled with a 

 dense smoke, and when the smoke is let off, such 

 of the insects which have not been killed by it, 

 will be in a sickly moving state, and by watering 

 the plants all over through the rose of a large 

 watering-pot, it will dislodge the remainder. 



